dir listing not starting with . and ..

Søren Hauberg soren at hauberg.org
Wed Feb 4 10:14:20 CST 2009


ons, 04 02 2009 kl. 16:19 +0100, skrev Søren Hauberg:
> > So, maybe pkg should be fixed?
> 
> Yeah, I guess it should. I'll supply a patch some time tonight unless
> anybody beats me to it...

I've been thinking a bit about this while out running. 'pkg' calls
'untar' to unpack the package and then uses 'readdir' to determine the
name of whatever directory was in the tar file. Since a package only
should contain one directory (what would we do if it had more?) we
always just pick the first directory (skipping "." and "..") that was
unpacked. So picking element number 3 of the directory listing does make
sense. So, I don't really think 'pkg' needs to be fixed.

Søren



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